Moments of Hark

March 2026

From the fish doorbell to the man who lived in IKEA for a week, here are March's podcast moments that made us go "wow!"

From the fish doorbell to the man who lived in IKEA for a week, here are March's podcas... more

Hosted byJody Avirgan

Curated byHark Editors

22 CLIPS1 HR 49 MINS

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The Woman Who Changed American Fashion

Claire McCardell is the most influential American designer in history. So why has nobody heard of her?

Articles of Interest

5 MINS

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Skewering the State of the Union Speech

Peter Sagan delivers a hilarious broadside about Donald Trump's State of the Union speech and his special guests, the U.S. hockey team.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

2 MINS

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France's Bizarre Take on American Food

French supermarket Picard runs "Crazy America Week" selling wild mashups like pancake croque monsieurs. Is this really what American food looks like abroad?

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

4 MINS

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The Fish Doorbell

An ecologist spots fish trapped by canal locks in Utrecht and invents an ingenious solution—a livestream doorbell anyone can ring to help them migrate.

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

6 MINS

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The Longest Fence in the World

A simple wire fence transformed Australia's ecology, separating animal populations and creating two distinct ecosystems visible from orbit.

99% Invisible

6 MINS

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Taking a Group of Kids to the Zoo

Corporate lawyer Tess Birch thought she was the worst youth leader ever when she lost a child at the zoo.

The Moth

5 MINS

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Creating the Sound of Dementors and Giant Spiders

Sound designers used metal inhale screams and gargled egg whites underwater to create Harry Potter's most terrifying creatures, the soul-sucking Dementors.

Creating the Sound of Dementors and Giant Spiders

Twenty Thousand Hertz

5 MINS

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The One-Word Telegram That Saved a Life from the Holocaust

A woman in Nazi Berlin sends her Jewish rocket scientist husband a coded telegram—just one word—to save him from certain death.

The One-Word Telegram That Saved a Life from the Holocaust

StoryCorps

3 MINS

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He Lived in IKEA for a Week, And It Beat His NYC Apartment

Mark Malkoff convinced IKEA to let him move in for a week. This is what happened.

He Lived in IKEA for a Week, And It Beat His NYC Apartment

Really? no, Really? with Jason Alexander & Peter Tilden

4 MINS

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The Worst Oscars Opening Ever

The 1989 Oscars opening was SO catastrophic, the Academy formed a committee to study what went wrong. Michael Schulman reveals the disaster that changed everything.

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

3 MINS

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Why a Taxi Driver Refused to Teach His Son to Drive

Jitesh Jaggi confronts his taxi driver father about refusing to teach him to drive... and discovers the heartwarming reason why.

Why a Taxi Driver Refused to Teach His Son to Drive

The Moth

5 MINS

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Dad Turns 3-Year-Old's Wild Stories Into Viral Songs

Composer Stephen Spencer captures his daughter's bizarre tales, word-for-word, in catchy tunes. Millions are crying, laughing... and healing.

Dad Turns 3-Year-Old's Wild Stories Into Viral Songs

Global News Podcast

6 MINS

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When Scientists Created a Ghost

After explorers reported they all saw a ghost, scientists tried to create one in a lab. And the results were shocking... literally.

The Rest Is Science

7 MINS

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The Surprising Stories Behind the Most Iconic Ads

From "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" to "Mikey likes it," these commercials have stood the test of time. Perhaps because they didn't come about in the usual way.

The Surprising Stories Behind the Most Iconic Ads